


"Knowledge is power." 



MEANS OF 



EDUCATION 

AND SELF CULTURE 
OFFERED DAYWORKERS 
By the CITY OF BUFFALO 




"Every person has two educations, one which he re- 
ceives from* others and one, more important, which he 
gives himself."— GIBBON. 



" BUFFALO MEANS BUSINESS 



1909 
OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO 

Mayor: 
James Noble Adam. 



Comptroller: 
George M. Zimmerman. 

Superintendent of Education: 
Henry P. Emerson. 



Treasurer: 
Neil McEachren. 

Corporation Counsel: 
Louis E. Desbecker. 



Common Council: 
Francis T. Coppins, President. 

Board of Councilmen: 
Dr. Henry H. Bingham, President. 
John C. Betz. Jacob J. Siegrist. 

Alfred H. Burt. Charles L. Willert. 

Henry Adsit Bull. Wm. Burnett Wright, Jr. 
Wm. W. Reilley. Henry Zipp. 

Board of Aldermen: 
Wm. O. Weimar, President. 



Frank J. Britz. 
Charles F. Brooks. 
George J. Burley. 
Octave A. Bruso. 
Joseph Butler. 
John J. Collins. 
Francis T. Coppins. 
Wm. H. Crosby. 
Frank J. Eberle. 
Harry Fisher. 
Louis P. Fuhrman. 
George J. Haffa. 



Elmer E. Harris. 
John J. Kennedy. 
Wm. Metzler. 
Nicholas Niederpruem. 
John F. Nowak. 
Dr. James S. Porter. 
W. E. Shifferens. 
Fred Schmieding. 
Edward Sperry. 
Samuel Stengel. 
George H. Striker. 
John P. Sullivan. 



H. J. Balliett, City Clerk. 



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"The civilized world now recognizes the necessity of 
popular education. In a government of the people such 
as this, intelligence should be universal. In such a gov- 
ernment, to be ignorant is not merely to be weak, it is to 
be dangerous to the common welfare." — BISHOP 
SPALDING. 



The Buffalo Public Library 

The Buffalo Society of Natural 
Sciences 

The Buffalo Historical Society 

The Grosvenor Library 

The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy 
and Night Schools 

Provided by the City of Buffalo for the 
Free Use of all Residents 



Published by the Institutions Described 






"A complete general education fits a man to perform 
justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace 
and war."— MILTON. 



^ I ^HE means which Buffalo offers to all residents 
-*- for education increase as the demand is made 
apparent. 

At one time all that was thought necessary was to 
provide elementary schools for the children, the 
greater part of whom can attend them but a few years. 
This training teaches them to read, to write and to 
cipher — all else must be gained after the school period 
is past unless they are fortunate enough to be able tc 
go through a high school or are of a still smaller 
number who go to college. 

While each additional year at school is an advance 
on the road, yet all school training is but a start and 
education must continue through after years if one is 
to make the most of life. 

Those workers who have had only the elementary 
training, in constantly increasing numbers, are realiz- 
ing their handicap and are striving to remove it. The 
growing use of all means of "out of school" education 
prove this. 

Buffalo is giving a great deal of help to all its resi- 
dents who need and want knowledge to enlarge and 
enrich their lives by providing public libraries and 
night schools, and aiding the societies devoted to 
History, Science and Art, so that all may share their 
benefits. The purpose of this pamphlet is to state 



"The education received at- 'school and college is but a 
beginning . . . and is far less ours than that which 
we acquire by our own diligent and persevering effort." — 
SAMUEL SMILES. 



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"A man whose mind has been mostly fallow ground 
will not easily take to the mental plow and hoe; but 
when he does persevere he will find the natural law 
operate on his side, the law which ordains joy for the 
sweat of the brain as well as for the sweat of the brow." — 
HUGH BLACK. 



what this means so that all may know the resources in 
liooks, collections, apparatus and people provided for 
the education of those who cannot attend the schools. 
Thei'e are in Buffalo 62 grammar schools, four 
hig-h schools and a teachers' training' school con- 
ducted by the city ; a state normal school ; profes- 
sional schools of the University of Buffalo ; an art 
school ; a larg-e system of parochial schools and 
excellent private schools providing- for a great variety 
of educational need. It is the aim of the societies 
described in this pamphlet to supplement the work 
of all schools, but to emphasize the help offered to 
those who are educating' themselves. 



"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the 
size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man 
the country turns out." — EMERSON. 

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Main Library Building 

Washington, Broadway, EUicott and Clinton Streets 

The Buffalo Public Library coutaius 250,000 
volumes which are cared for by a staff of people 
whose work it is to make them available to those who 
need them. 

It is supported by the people of Buffalo and is 
maintained for the use and help of all residents, each 
of wdiom is entitled to its privileges — to the home use 
of its books and to tire help and assistance of its staff. 

It aims to broaden and enrich life by the best com- 
panionship. 

It aims to provide the book you need to help you in 
your study or work. 

It aims to provide the books needed in any course 
of reading in general literature, as well as technical 
books for the study of all industries and trades. 

It aims to advise readers as to the best books for 
any particular purpose and to find material in any 
line of research. 

Books are now a necessity for the study of almost 
every subject, as well as for general culture, and it is 
the purpose of the lijarary to supply them. 



The most able men in your line of work have put the 
result of their experience on record — in books. 



You can get many years of experience from a single 
book. 



THE LIBRARY BUILDING 

is near the l)u^iness center of the town and occupies 
the entire hlock l^ounded 1)\- Washington, Broadway, 
Fdlicott and dinton streets, and all activities of the 
Lihrarv are directed from this huilding. More hooks 
go from it iiito the hands of the peojjle than from any 
like building in the country. 

THE VESTIBULE 

t)pens from the ]^>roadway front and gives access 
directly to the Circulating Department, and, by stair- 
way and elevator, to the Reference Department, the 
Periodical Department, and the Children's Rooms. 

THE CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT 

is directly opposite the front door. All grown people 
who would like liooks to read at home are welcome 
here. 

THE REGISTRY DESK 

is at the left as one enters the Circulating Department, 
and all who wish to borrow books should first register 
here on a form provided. I-'or the protection of the 
public property it is necessary that eacb person should 
be identified as a resident of Buft'alo wdth a definite 
address, and when this has been done cards wdll be 
iiiven. 



People on the Library staff are there to help you — they 
expect questions. 



If the Library has not the book you need, it may be 
able to get it if you leave a request. 



CARDS 

Two cards are given to each person. On the card 
printed in black, one book of any class may be drawn. 
On the card printed in red no novels or stories can be 
taken. The two cards are meant to supplement one 
another, so that each person may have one book for 
study or information and in addition a story for 
pleasure or recreation, but two books for study may be 
had if preferred. It is always necessary to bring" these 
cards when wishing to draw books. 

THE BOOKS 

and these — not the buildings — are really the "Library," 
now number more than 250,000. All of them except 




Registration Desk 



If you wish advice on books for special reading, consult 
the Heads of Departments. 



What you should know about your work is in a book in 
the Public Library. Why not have it? 




Return and Request Windows 

reference books and some very rare or expensive 
volumes which must not be taken from the fireproof 
building-, may be borrowed for home reading-. If one 
knows exactly the book he wants it may be asked for 
by title at the Request Window of the Delivery 
Counter. 

THE DELIVERY COUNTER 

or Loan Desk is the chief exchange point of the 
library and is directly opposite the entrance. All 
books are returned here, under the crossed flags, and 



"My opportunities in youth for acquiring an education 
were limited, but I had the great good fortune of being 
well supplied with useful books, and these gave me my 
start in life."— DANIEL WEBSTER. 



"All a university can do for us is — teach us to read.' 
CARLYLE. 



here any wished books may be asked for. It is not 
necessary to search the catalogues for any book of 
which you know the title. Ask at the Request Win- 
dow, giving" the title as accurately as may be. and the 
author if known. Lists of books made up at home 
are useful as memoranda at the library. It is well t'o 
remember that 70.000 other people arc drawing books, 
and the law of chances does not permit that each one 
shall always be able to get the most desired book. It 
is always possible to get something interesting to read 
and the library assistants are glad to help to the limit 
of their time and strength. 

THE CARD CATALOGUE 

Persons wdio want to read on a certain sul)ject and 
want to know what the Library owns on that subject 
will be interested in the card catalogue, which is in 
the cabinet along the wall to the left as one enters the 
Circulating Department. It is the record of all books 
in the Library and may be used exactly as one uses a 
dictionary, each book being recorded under its author's 
name, under its title, and under its subject (ii it is 
not fiction). For example, John Ruskin's Unto this 
last may be found by looking under R for the author's 
name. Ruskin, or under XJ for the title. Unto, or under 
E for the subject, Economics. The card catalogue is 
for the use of all, and any assistant will show just how 
to use it. 



"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.^ 
APDISON. 



"Studious let us sit, and hold high converse with the 
mighty dead."— THOMSON. 



THE OPEN SHELF DEPARTMENT 

is specially for the use of those who wish somethine,' 
£;"oo(l' to read but have no very definite idea as to just 
what tliey want. The rooms adjoin the main room 
of the Circulating^" Department nn the rii:^ht and they 
serve two purposes, — first, as the main reading' room 
of the Library, wlierc one ma\' spend a spare hour or 
two over a favorite old book or an attractive new one, 
and. second, as a select library of many of the best 
popular books on all subjects, where borrowers may 
select as they })lease for home use. This "open shelf" 
collection is chosen with great care and in it are in- 
cluded manv of the great books of all time, nianv new 



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"Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wis- 
dom."— CARLYLE. 



"Books should to one of these four ends conduce,- 
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use." 



attractive books on modern lines of thought and infor- 
mation, and the best of fiction, old and new. A good 
number of German and French books are included in 
the open shelf collection. All books in these rooms 
may be examined at leisure, they may be read in the 
rooms, or, after being charged at the desk next the 
exit, may be taken home. All books represented here 
are also found in the stack. 

THE REFERENCE DEPARTMENT 

occupies the north wing of the building on the second 
floor, access being had by both elevator and stairway 
from the entrance vestibule. On open shelves are 
arranged encyclopedias, dictionaries of many kinds, 
atlases, and other books needed' for c|uick reference. 
The Reference librarian and his assistants will search 
out information on subjects brought to them and 
books from all departments will be brought here for 
consultation. The reference books shelved in these 
rooms are for library use only and are not issued for 
home reading. 

In the ante-room of the Reference Department, in 
cabinets along the wall, is the card catalogue of the 
Library of Congress, so far as it is completed, de- 
posited here by courtesy of that library. 

THE PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT 

occupies the attractive room in the angle of the build- 
ing on the second floor. In an open case, arranged 



"The true university of these days is a collection of 
books."— CARLYLE. 



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"Few can hope for real success in any art, trade or craft 
who do not make use of books." 



alphabetically by titles, are about three hundred maga- 
zines anrl serial publications for use in the room. 
Many extra copies of the more popular magazines are 
taken by the library for home use and may be had in 
the Circulating" Department. 

BRANCHES AND STATIONS 

are estaljlished in various parts of the city far from 
the main building. The same library cards are good 
at the main library or any of its branches. While the 
number of books in these local libraries is small, the 
resources of the main library can be used from them. 
Any desired book will be sent to a branch library when 
asked for. 

The Joseph P. Dudley Branch, 503 South Park 
Avenue. 

The William Ives Branch, on the corner of Broad- 
way and Playter Street, in the Dom Polski. 

The Lafayette Branch in the Lafayette High 
School. 

The stations have no deposits of books, but do have 
daily communication with the main library. If care- 
fully made lists of books wanted, or requests for 
books on any particular subject, are left at any station, 
satisfactory results should be secured. 



"Every book that we take up without a purpose is an 
opportunity lost of taking up a book with a purpose." — 
HARRISON. 



Living in Buffalo gives you the right to use the PubUc 
Library. 



B. Keller & Deuchler, 739 Seneca Street. 

C. William E. Lemon, 897 Tonawanda Street. 

D. Ellis T. Lathbury, 72 Forest Avenue. 

E. John Deckup, 177 East Street. 

F. J. F. Hermann, 2648 Main Street. 

G. E. W. Hodson, Seneca and Elk Streets. 
H. W. L. Krnmmell, 2340 Seneca Street. 

Arrangements can be made by groups of people in 
any part of the city to borrow a small traveling library 
for club or neisfhborhood use. 



"Reading means taking advantage of the observations 
and thoughts and opinions of others w^hich are so bounti- 
fully stored up for us in books." — HUGH BLACK. 



The Buffalo Society of Natural 
Sciences 

Hayes School of Natural Science 




'J'lie JUiffalo Society of Xatura! Sciences of which 
the Hayes School of Natural Science now forms a 
part, occupies two floors of the i'ulilic Library Build- 
ing, centrally located on the block bounded by Wash- 
ington, Broadway, l-^llicott and Clinton Streets, where 
are displayed its valualjle scientific collections which 
are at all times open freely to the ]:)ublic in its ^Museum, 
as is also its scientific reference library of a]:)0ut 6,000 
volumes, and its lecture room in which an important 
part of its educational work is daily carried on. 

The Society was organized in 1861 and incorporated 
January ly , 11^63. its purpose being to promote the 
study of the Natural Sciences, to stimulate and en- 
courage original scientific research, and especially to 
provide for the people of our city, free instruction in 



"The true object of science is to lead the mind of man 
towards its noble destination — knowledge of truth." — 
CUVIER. 

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"Happy the man whose lot it is to know the secrets of 
the earth."— EURIPIDES. 



those sciences and thus to further educational work 
in Buffalo by every means in its power. 

By stairway or elevator to the basement floor the 
visitor reaches the Society's lecture room where by 
special arrang^ement with the City's Department of 
Public Instruction, every morning at 10.30 and every 
afternoon at 2 o'clock through the school year the 
public school children of the grammar school grades 
come for their instruction in elementary science by the 
Society's lecturer whose talks upon Physiology, Tropi- 
cal Products, Bees, Birds, Geography and the mineral 
and other natural resources of the United States are 
finely illustrated by stereopticon views and by all the 
laboratory experiments which are illustrative in the 
several courses of study. In the bird talks, actual 
specimens of birds are first shown and described and 
then a series of pictures is thrown upon the screen, 
showing the homes of the birds and the enemies which 
are liable to attack them. For illustrating the habits of 
bees, a hive of live bees is used, the walls being made 
of glass so that bees and comb can be plainly seen. 
Bee keeping utensils are explained and a beautiful 
series of slides shows the bees at work upon the 
flowers. At the close of each lecture the collections of 
the Museum are visited by the children under the 
guidance of their teachers. Cases are especially ar- 
ranged for each of the several grades, showing the 



"As the light of the untried world to the infant, so is 
the dawning of the light resting over the unexplored 
realms of science to the student."— O. W. HOLMES. 

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"Nature and wisdom are never at strife." — JUVENAL. 

coal and iron, the mineral products and other valuable 
resources of the United States ; the actual tropical 
products such as cocoa, vanilla, cocoanuts, coffee, rub- 
ber, etc., as well as exhibits illustrative of anatomy, 
physiology, methods of aboriginal life, the implements 
and hand^made products of Indians and other primi- 
tive peoples, covering" the work of the year in that 
direction as prescribed by the public schools. 

In this lecture room is also given a series of weekly 
public lectures of a popularly scientific character 
which begin in November and end in May and form 
an important part of the Society's educational work. 
Admission cards to these lectures are given without 
charge to all who apply at the office for them. 

In the vestibule at the foot of the elevator will be 
found the Ward series of skeleton casts of the gigan- 
tic creatures of the Tertiary period ; the great Mega- 
therium, the Glyphtodon, that enormous fossil arma- 
dillo; skulls and tusks of the Dinotherum, the Mam- 
moth and the Mastodon, while in the lecture room is 
the cast of the great antediluvian tortoise, the Colos- 
sochelys Atlas. 

In one of the adjoining rooms is shown the Bennett 
Collection of fossils from the water lime group near 
Buffalo, the largest collection of the Euripterids in 
the world, embracing many type specimens. In the 
hallway are the tall cases containing the Clinton Her- 
barium of about 24,000 specimens collected by Hon. 



"The observer of Nature sees with admiration that the 
whole world is full of the glory of God."— LINNAEUS. 

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"The laws of Nature are the thoughts of God." — • 
ZSCHOKKE. 



George W. Clinton, the first President of the Society, 
and in the rear rooms may be seen some of the geo- 
logical collections of the Society ; the beautiful niin- 
eralogical collection which bears the name of the late 
Charles F. Wadsworth; the large meteorite from the 
Caiion Diablo in Arizona, and the large cases contain- 
ing groups of mammals, — moose, elk, deer, bears, 
camel, mountain goats, etc., including the great group 
of mounted bufifalo, one of the finest in the United 
States. 

Taking the elevator to the third floor, the visitor 
finds in the vestibule a large collection of African 
implements and weapons ; native spears, arrows, bows 
and shields, articles of dress, idols and fetishes, masks, 
basketry, musical instruments and drums, canoes, 
carved ivory, as well as elephant and hippopotamus 
tusks. 

In room No. 2 are the cases illustrating the educa- 
tional' work in elementary science as before stated, 
and here is displayed many of the Society's Collec- 
tions in Archaeology, the Wende Collection of Ameri- 
can Indian implements, weapons and ornaments, be- 
side numerous other cases filled with similar exhibits ; 
a large collection of Mound Builder pottery ; skulls 
taken from the western mounds as also from Indian 
vill'age sites in our own state ; an important collection 
of pottery from the piovince of Chiriqui in Central 



"The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches 
us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins." — 
O. W. HOLMES. 

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"A love of Nature is the foundation stone of Truth." — 
PETER FRANDSEN. 



America ; l)askct work in i^rcat variety and modern 
pottery from the i)ueblos of .\rizona and New Mexico; 
models of Lidian houses, etc.. etc. Here is also shown 
the line group of Whistling Swans, carried over 
Niagara Falls in the spring of 1907. 

In room No. 3 are many cases filled with other in- 
teresting- archaeological exhibits; Indian, Peruvian. 
Egyptian, etc.. and upright cases containing the 
ornithological collections, inchuling' the Bodemeier 
Collection of foreig'n birds purchased many years since 
and very complete collections of our native birds. 
Those of New York State are assembled in one of 
the larg^e cases for the convenience of students. 

In room No. 4 are shown the corals and the Con- 
cholog'ical Collections of the Society. These fill the 
entire room and are of great beauty and interest. 

In room No. 5 is the Society's office and its Library 
of 6,000 volumes of scientific publications, of especial 
value as a library of reference for science study and 
open at all times for the free use of students and those 
who are interested in such work. 

Msitors are always welcome and every facility for 
investigation will be extended l)v those in charge. 



"Those who take honours in Nature's University, who 
learn the laws which govern men and things and obey 
them are really great and successful men in this world." 
—HUXLEY. 

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Historical Building 

Delaware Park, Buffalo 

Buffalo Historical Society 

This institution, organized 1862, has since 1901 
occupied its own building in Delaware Park (Elm- 
wood Avenue entrance). The structure itself, cost 
upwards of $200,000, is of white mar<ble, with a fine 
Doric portico. The most striking feature of the inte- 
rior is a spacious central court, finished in polished 
black marble, with Ionic capitals and gilded cornices. 
It contains a bronze statue of Lincoln, numerous 
busts, memorial tablets and paintings. 

The Historical Museums 

In the basement is a collection of articles belonging 
to the early days of Buffalo and Western New York. 

The North Hall, main floor, contains relics of the 
American Wars, especially of the Civil War, and the 
flags of several Western New York regiments ; models 
and pictures of the Pan-American Exposition; a small 



'History is Philosophy teaching by example. 

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We collect, we preserve, we make useful. 



collection of Etruscan copper, pottery, beads, etc.; and 
miscellaneous articles of historical interest. 

The upper floor, which is the principal museum, 
contains the Cottier, Scoville, Atkins, Silver and 
Benedict Indian collections ; the Gen. Auman, Jordan, 
and other collections from the Philippines and Cuba; 
the James coin and med'al collection ; the Joseph C. 
Greene collection of casts and relics from Egypt, 
Assyria, Turkey and India; with many articles of a 
local or general historical value. 

One room is devoted to the Julius E. Erancis 
Lincoln collection, and to relics of the Civil War,, 
portraits of the Presidents, etc. 

A large Portrait Plall contains, besides many oil 
portraits, relics of Millard Eillmore, an original set 
of the Boydell Shakespeare engravings, etc. 

Study clubs or pupils from the schools, singly or by 
classes, are welcomed at the building for study of any 
of the museum objects. Nearly 5,000 pupils visited 
the building for this purpose in 1908. 

Libraries 

I. The Historical Society library (20,000 volumes, 
many pamphlets and manuscripts) is devoted chiefly 
to the historical literature of the Niagara region, 
though it is rich in other departments of history, e. g., 
slavery, the Civil War, the War of 1812, biography 
and genealogy. It has a useful collection of New 
Ene^land town and local histories. 



"Neh-ko, gah-gis-dah-yen-duk" — 

"Other council fires were here before ours." 

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"Knowledge of the Past is Strength for the Future." 

The nczvspapcr room contains a large collection of 
early Western New York papers, and of other papers 
covering- important periods in American history. 

2. The John C. Lord library (ii,ooo volumes) and 
the library of Mrs. Millard Fillmore (600 volumes) 
occupy one room. The former collection is rich in 
early printed 'books, theological and standard litera- 
ture prior to 1870. 

3. The ^Marshall library, deposited with the His- 
torical Societ}^, contains about 1,000 volumes, many 
being rare, chiefly relating to the French in America, 
to Indians, and to local history. 

The free use of all its literary properties is accorded 
to all who apply, under the usual rules of a reference 
library. The library is open daily, 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., 
except Sundays and holidays. 

Popular Lectures 

From October to ]May the Society provides free 
lectures, usually of a historical character, on Sunday 
afternoons. 

The museums and portrait halls are open free to the 
public, 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily ; Sundays, 2 to 5 p. m. 

Advantages of Metnbership 

The Buffalo Historical Society does more for the 
public, without charge, than any other like organiza- 
tion in America. At the same time it recoenizes its 



Relics versus Rubbish: Rubbish is worthless, but Relics 
teach. 

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Next to knowing a thing, it is well to know just where 
to go, for the desired information. 



obligations to the sustaining- body of members, for 
whom it provides annually a course of lectures and 
other entertainments. Its series of historical volumes 
("Publications", vols. I-XI. 1879-1907; vols. XII and 
XIII now in press), are sent free to all members, also 
to the Bufifalo high schools ; and are furnished in 
exchang-e to other historical societies and sold to 
libraries and schools throughout the country. 

The Historical Building is one of the show places 
of Bufifalo, and one of its must beautiful and popular 
resorts. 

The Historical Society is the chief medium of 
\\'estern Xew "S'ork for the collection and preservation 
of historical material. Its resources and the help of 
its staff are freely at the service of the general public. 



"Come often and bring your friends." 
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Grosvenor Library 

Franklin and Edward Streets 

The Grosvenor Library is strictly a reference li- 
brary. Although founded by an endowment it is 
largely supported by the city of Buffalo, receiving one 
fifth of the money appropriated annually by the city 
for library purposes. It is and always has been 
entirely free to the public, there being no membership 
or other special privileges connected with the institu- 
tion. Being owned and maintained by the city of 
Buffalo its privileges and resources are for the free 
use of her citizens, and an equal welcome is extended 
to strangers and temporary residents. 

As a reference library it aims to supply standard 
literature and the technical and more expensive works 



"The great consulting-room of a wise man is a library." 
—DAWSON. 



The Grosvenor is the city reference library and has 
many books of design for the art worker not in the circu- 
lating libraries. 



needed by the stud'ent. The books in many depart- 
ments are kept on open shelves and those that are 
under lock are made as accessible to the student as 
circumstances will permit. It has a large and beauti- 
ful reading" room with every convenience for readers 
and special study rooms for certain departments. 

It contains a very complete and useful collection of 
books on local history and family records, an excellent 
assortment on architecture, decoration and the fine 
arts, and a very full representation on such subjects 
as history, biography, American poetry, and medicine, 
a complete set of the American and Canadian patent 
records and all the more important general reference 
books and sets of periodicals. 

Seth Grosvenor, the founder of this library, was a 
merchant here in the early days of Buffalo, who later 
moved to New York City where he amassed most of 
his large fortune. On his death in 1857 the city of 
lUift'alo received by bequest from his estate $30,000 as 
a permanent endowment for a public reference library, 
the income only to be used in the purchase of books, 
and $io,OGO as the nucleus of a building- fund to the 
latter of which the city later added another $10,000 
and from this fund the present building- was erected 
in 1895 at a cost of $100,000. The library was first 
opened to the public in 1870 in rented quarters in the 
old building; of the Buffalo Saving-s Bank on the corner 



There is no better school-room than the quiet reference 
library. 

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"Reading is seeing by proxy." — SPENCER. 

of \\'asliin!4tun Street aiul Uroadway. It now contains 
about 78,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets. 

The Grosvenor library is located at the corner of 
Franklin and Edward streets, one block west of the 
Teck Theatre. It is open from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. on 
week days and from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. on Sundays. 



"The self-educator's first and simplest aim should be to 
know and do well whatever he knows and does." — 
SPALDING. 

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Albright Art Gallery 

The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy 

Delaware Park (Elmwood Avenue) 

The Albright Art GaUery is placed on Park lands 
with the understanding that the building" shall be open 
to the public at certain times agreed upon. It is now 
open free to visitors every Saturday and every Sunday 
from I p. m. until 5 p. m. in winter and from I p. m. 
to 6 p. m. in summer. 

The palatial art building provided through the 
munificence of j\Ir. John Joseph Albright, of the city 
of Buffalo, contains the permanent collection of the 
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. 

Many special exhibitions are given each year of the 
work of the best artists. These exhibitions are among 
the choicest in the country, and afford unusual oppor- 
tunities to art students. 



"Pictures are the record of the feeling and experience of 
other minds." 



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Night Schools 



Tlie city offers free systematic instruction in the 
e\'eninQ- schools in the subjects found in the following 
lists. 

Particulars of entrance requirements and other 
detail can he had from the Department of Public 
Instruction in the ^Municipal Building, or from any of 
the school principals. 



EVENING GRAMMAR SCHOOLS 

Tnventy ^ceeks — three evenings per ix.-eek 

School No. I. English, sewing, millinery, mechan- 
ical drawing, joinery. 

School No. 2. English (all Italian). 

School No. 7. English, millinery, dressmaking. 

School No. 20. English, sewing, dressmaking, 
cooking, joinery, mechanical drawing. 

School No. 31. English, mechanical drawing, 
dressmaking, millinery, cooking, stenography, book- 
keeping. 

School No. 39. English, mechanical drawing, join- 
ery, cooking, dressmaking, millinery, stenography, 
bookkeeping. 

School No. 43. English, cooking, mechanical draw- 
ing, joinery, stenography, gymnasium. 

School No. 44. English, cooking, stenography, 
dressmaking. 

School No. 53. English, millinery, mechanical 
draw'ing, stenography, dressmaking, joinery. 

School No. 57. English, cooking, dressmaking. 

School No. 58. English, mechanical drawing, join- 
ery, cooking, dressmaking, millinery, stenography. 



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TECHNICAL EVENING HIGH SCHOOL 

T^weniy-six iveeks — three e'venings per lueek 



Architectural Drawing. 

Arithmetic (for the trades) 

Algebra (for the trades). 

Chemistry. 

Electricity. 

Forging. 

Gas Engineering. 

Geometry. 

Steam Engineering. 

T rigono 



Joinery. 

]\Iachine Shop Practice. 

Machine Design. 

Mechanical Drawing. 

Mechanics. 

Pattern Making. 

Plumbing. 

Plane Surveying. 

Sheet Metal Work. 

metry. 



CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL 

Tiventy ujeeks — three evenings per ivet 



Algebra. 

Analytical Geometry. 

Business Arithmetic. 

Business English. 

Bookkeeping. 

Commercial Law. 

Chemistry. 

English. 

Freehand Drawing. 

French. 



German. 

Latin. 

Parliamentary Law and 

Debate. 
Physiology. 
Spanish. 
Stenography. 
Trigonometry. 
U. S. History and Civics. 
Water Color Work. 



Geometry. 



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AUG 16 1909 



1909 

THE BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY 

Board of Directors: 
Thomas T. Ramsdeix, President. 
James N. Adam. Henry P. Emerson. 

Howard H. Baker. Charles P. Norton. 

Walter P. Cooke. Nathaniel W. Norton. 

Louis E. Desbecker. E. G. S. Miller, 

George L. Williams. 
Walter L. Brown, Librarian. 

THE BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 

Board of Managers : 
-Hon. T. Guilford Smith, LL. D., President. 
Lee H. Smith, M. D. Ottomar Reinecke. 

Henry A. Richmond. Charles R. Wilson. 

Andrew Langdon. Frederick Houghton. 

Henry R. Rowland. Lewis J. Bennett, 

Carlos E. Cummings, M. D. Edward H. Butler. 
James Savage. Ernest Wende, M. D, 

Philip S. Smith. Rev. Charles H. Smith, D. D 

Howard H. Baker. Carlton R, Perrine. 

Edgar B, Stevens. Ralph H. Sidway. 

Henry R. Howland, Superintendent. 

THE BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

Board of Managers : 
Andrew Langdon, President. 
Henry W. Hill. G. Barrett Rich. 

Albert H. Briggs, M. D. Henry A. Richmond. 
Willis O. Chapin. Lee H. Smith, M. D. 

Robert W. Day. George A. Stringer. 

Charles W. Goodyear, James Sweeney. 

R. R. Hefford. Charles R. Wilson. 

Henry R. Howland. The Mayor. 

Hugh Kennedy. The Corporation Counsel. 

J. N. Larned. The Comptroller. 

O. P. Letchworth. President Park Commissioners 

L. L. Lewis, Jr. President Common Council. 

John J. McWilliams. Superintendent of Education 

Frank H. Severance, Secretary. 

THE GROSVENOR LIBRARY 

Trustees: 

Edward H. Butler. Dr. William Gaertner. 

John H. Lascelles. 
Edward P. Vanduzee, Librarian. 




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